volition

英 [vəˈlɪʃn]

美 [voʊˈlɪʃn]

n.  意志力; 自愿选择; 自行决断

复数：volitions　

GRE

BNC.20159 / COCA.19937

牛津词典

noun

• 意志力；自愿选择；自行决断
  the power to choose sth freely or to make your own decisions
  1. They left entirely of their own volition (= because they wanted to) .
     他们完全是自愿离开的。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自愿选择;自行决定
  Yourvolitionis the power you have to decide something for yourself.
  1. We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition...
     我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
  2. He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
     他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
• PHRASE 出于自愿
  If you do somethingofyourown volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it.
  1. Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.
     梅金说库姆斯先生是主动去投案的。

双语例句

• Any man worth his salt wants to get there on his own volition.
  每个称职的男人都希望通过自己的努力来获得成功。
• I didn't ask him to go; he went of his own volition.
  我没有要求他去，他是出于自愿的。
• I have not volition enough left to dot my eyes, much less to comb my eyebrows.
  我无意点我的眼睛，更谈不上梳我的眉毛。
• We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition
  我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
• Every volition has a special motive which varies according to taste.
  每一决断都有其特定的动机，并随个人品味之异而异。
• He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
  他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
• The minister wished it to be known that he had left the cabinet of his own volition.
  那位部长希望公众知道他是自己决定离开内阁的。
• It is highly unusual for the forces of Heaven to so directly interfere with man's destiny, but Tyrael was said to act of his own volition.
  这种现象极度的不寻常，天堂的力量很少这样直接干预人类的命运，但是泰瑞尔说这是靠他自己的意志决定的。
• We all experience various types of experience including perception, imagination, thought, emotion, desire, volition, and action.
  我们都经验到各种不同类型的经验，包括知觉，想象，思想，情感，欲望，意志和行为。
• The courts may do this of their own volition.
  在这一点上，法院可以有自己的判决标准。